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For D.J. About Speech Recognition

Hey! The Speech Recognition part of the EZB works better than ANY I have ever seen. Even better than Dragon Dictate, in my opinion. But, I want to ask you if there is a limit to the NUMBER of phrases you can put in the Speech Rec program. I notice that when I first start off, it works fine. But, after a while I loose those capabilities. It is just...
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Strange Happenings

I have many many scripts in the Script Manager. When I call on them from another script , it sometimes tells me that there is no window named by that script. But, it is IN the script manager and created. I create another window by the same name and it runs the script in the script manager. But, if I change the second script that I created, it still...
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Relative Tracking Within A Script Woes

Relative Tracking Within A Script Woes

Hello Gang, I tried to use relative tracking, within a script. It does not drive the motors that are in the modified servo movement panel The...
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Obstical Course

www.dump.com/robotmaneuver/ This thing needs an EZ-B
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Ez Kit Questions

I don't think it's appropriate to post this here but when I tried under "Contact Us" I have gotten no response in 4 days. I tried to contact you again through Contact Us under Technical but got this " Warning: Technical Support? As stated above, sadly the EZ-Robot staff will not be able to assist with technical questions over email...
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Removing The Ic

Removing The Ic

Folks, I need to replace the IC on my EZB. I received a replacement chip, and I assumed I would need to you an IC "puller". However, I don't own one, and before I make the run to a...
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Project Program Code

Project Program Code

I am working on a ar drone parrot using camera device, ar drone control panel in which window can I see the codes of tracking color camera
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H-Bridge Dual Dc Motor Controller

H-Bridge Dual Dc Motor Controller

Hi, I got my H-Bridge from Ez. I'm playing with tutorial 43 working with the HBridge. I can not get my robot to move. The H-Bridge work fine using Ez...
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Serial Gps, Wired

Hi I'd like to connect a wired serial GPS to my EZ board (got the GPS Module PMB-648: https://learn.parallax.com/kickstart/28500). Is far as I understand it isn't yet possible to read a series of data/text/chars via the digital port and setting the read baud rate. Am I right? Anders P.
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Let's Talk About Navigation

Have any of you gotten your robots to Navigate flawlessly without running into the tables,chairs,etc. ? If so, what tips do you have to offer? There MUST be a good Navigation Algorithm out there. On small robots, this seems to be easier. But, on large ones it can be disastrous. I would like for us all to talk about our experiences with this problem...
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Motor And Potentiometer Script Help

I had this script working in ARC with only one board. I added a second board and added a 1. to the beginning of each command in the scripts but now I cant get the ports to turn of or on. I also get Syntax errors after I've run the scrip a few times and (I dont think) I made any changes. I also added the .1 in the call scripts "move right"...
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Firmware Update Question With Vm And Windows 7 64 Bits

Hello, I have just received my ez robot :-) I have install the last sofwtare and When I connect to the EZ-Controller an Upgradde need to be done. Just to present my config : MacBook Pro running VMWare Fusion with Windows 7 64 bits I have launch the Firmware Update and it start and after the green bar from the update finish (to the end) nothing...